Technical Assurance Authority

**What you’ll do**:
**Location**: London/Newbury/Newark/Stoke-On-Trent/Manchester/Glasgow + Hybrid

**Salary**:Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits

**Working hours**:37.5 hours Mon-Fri

At Vodafone UK we believe that through collaboration and connection with our colleagues we can achieve great things. Our hybrid working approach allows our people to work both in the office and at home, providing the flexibility and resources you need to succeed in your role. We don't require you to be in on specific days; instead, we ask people to come into the office 2-3 days each week, on average 8 days a month. Our “Office in a Box” home working kit will provide you with everything you need, no matter where you are.

Join our Vodafone Business Technology Solutions team, where we support businesses of all sizes with world-class technology solutions. We design and develop our Fixed Line solutions, drive efficiency through automation and AI, and implement it all directly with our customers.

The Solutions Architect is accountable for ensuring that complex and bespoke customer solutions are assessed within Vodafone formal assurance framework; assessing the operational risks, accurately reflecting Vodafone Business Technology Solutions UK activities and costs with resource requirements and ensuring delivery planning accurately forecasted for input to commercial bid modelling and contract negotiations.

The role holder will work with pre-sales Solutions and Programme Design and Commercial Managers to lead non-standard propositions through the assurance and governance processes to de-risk them and ensure appropriate and effective focus for these bids, unblocking any issues in the operational teams and so supporting sales growth activities.

**What You'll do**
- Responsible for influencing sales propositions to help Sales and Commercial win business deals in a Pre-Sales capacity
- Tracking and monitoring of Pre-Sales activity
- Maintaining close, long-term working relationships with key sales stakeholders & customers (if customer facing), acting as trusted advisor
- Driving impact assessments, collation of costs and all key activities to meet agreed deadlines and ensure timely bid submission
- Providing 'technical authority' for proposals, validate content of high level designs
- Peer review designs from pre-sales architects providing critical/positive appraisal
- Ensure continuity for the customer by providing an effective handover from pre-sales into the solution delivery team
- Keep up-to-date with developments in Telecoms, associated technologies and the customer and supplier market places
- Contribute to the development of Company goals, growth and profitability targets by being an active member of the team and culture.

**Who you are**:

- Experience working within a Pre-Sales/Solutions Architecture capacity with the ability to interpret low and high-level designs
- Broad Telecommunications experience with an understanding of at least one of the following: enterprise LAN, WAN, wireless, firewall technologies, next generation firewall technologies, SD-WAN. Experience within Cloud or Security is particularly desirable
- Experience of routing, switching and security technologies within multi-tenant and data centre environments
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence and navigate complex stakeholder groups

Please note the ability to achieve and maintain SC Clearance is essential for this role.

**What We Offer**:
We believe that taking care of our employees is the key to their success. That is why we offer an excellent remuneration and bonus package with up to 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We take pride in our commitment to supporting you at every stage of your career by providing top of the range learning and development tools and market leading parental leave policies.

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